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Welcome to the PokerStars corporate blog. Here you'll find regular updates, news and views that help you get to know the company and our employees better and where we will share our views on our business, the industry and issues affecting both. Going forward, you'll hear from a range of...more

Macau has been in the poker spotlight for quite some time now. It's always been a pivotal stop on the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour, attracting hundreds of players and awarding millions of Hong Kong Dollars, every year. In recent times it became even more marked on the map thanks...more

We've been spending a lot of time these last few weeks looking back and marveling at the 10-year history of PokerStars, online poker's biggest site. Part of that time has been occupied leafing through the nifty PokerStars 10th Anniversary e-magazine in which the story of the site's first decade is...more

We've said it before. The Women's Sunday continues to grow. And as we enter the last month of 2011, the women of PokerStars came out in great numbers to smash the weekly guarantee and show their ever-increasing force as part of the online poker world. Meanwhile, the promotions from PokerStars...more

It became very clear many days ago that PokerStars would be making history today. Our previous Guinness World Record for the largest poker tournament was 149,196 players, and we zoomed passed that figure in early registrations so fast that the 200,000 cap was reached well before kick-off today. So a...more

Anas Tadini had been chip leader after Day 1 of the PokerStars France Poker Series Sunfest Mazagan event in Morocco. He had been chip leader at the end of Day 2 as well. So it was no great surprise to learn that he had maintained his momentum and picked up...more

7.20pm: Richard Sinclair is the UKIPT Champion of Champions Richard Sinclair today won the UKIPT Champion of Champions event at Dusk Till Dawn and the prize of buy-ins and hotel to all regular UKIPT Season 3 stops. The Scotsman had won his seat to this star-studded sit-and-go by winning...more

Of the 305 players who made ​​up the original field of the France Poker Series Mazagan Sunfest, only 106 made it back for Day 2. Play then continued for ten hours before the field was slashed down to just 11 survivors, who will play to a winner later today. The...more

Good news for those of you who enjoy a bit of live streaming. The PokerStars France Poker Series event in Morocco, Sunfest Mazagan, is being streamed live from now right through to the final table. This is the first tournament of season two, and they are on Day 2 of...more

As the year winds down, the competition gets tougher each month in the two divisions of the PokerStars Women's Poker League. Of course, there are monthly cash prizes to be won that can help any bankroll and boost a player's confidence for further competition. But moreover, there are big monthly...more

The showers of free 10th Anniversary cash from PokerStars HQ to computers around the world continues with yet another significant promotional announcement today. You'll likely know that in the lead up to our 100 Billionth Hand, we're giving away loads of money. Normally, we reserve the fun for the period...more

Throughout the whole of November, we published a huge series of articles that, when taken together, pretty much covered the whole history of PokerStars. As a further bonus to your undoubted reading pleasure, all answers needed to enter the special 10th Anniversary $0.10 Trivia Tourneys (running in the Lobby now)...more

PokerStars Radio is back. Following its popular run during this year's WCOOP series, the show returns for a one-off broadcast to coincide with this Sunday's World Record Tournament on PokerStars. PokerStars is always giving you something extra, and this show is no different. With prize giveaways, phone-ins, special guests and...more

The maximum number of ring (also known as 'cash') tables you can play on PokerStars is 24 at a time. The limit is placed on all variations of poker, regardless of whether you're playing No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, or some crazy game like Badugi. The same also applies to the...more

I smile when remembering how I started my career on PokerStars in 2005... with a bankroll of $50. The lowest SnG's at the time were $5, so I started from there. After big win days I went on to play a 'lottery', i.e. some tournament to play through the night....more